If you run a managed service provider and you have realized that your buyers now ask ChatGPT and Perplexity who to hire, you are looking for a partner to fix your AI visibility. This is a guide to the agencies doing GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AI visibility work relevant to MSPs in 2026, with real positioning and real prices where they are published.
One disclosure up front, stated plainly because the honest version of this list has to. Ministeru' Creativ, the agency publishing this article, is on it. We have tried to describe our competitors the way we would want to be described, and to be clear about where each of them is stronger than us. Weigh our own entry accordingly.
Ministeru' Creativ (this is our own agency)
We are an AI visibility agency focused specifically on US MSPs and IT consultancies. Our offer is a fixed 90-day install, not an open-ended retainer: a frozen baseline audit, structured-data and crawlability fixes, answer-first content, local citation and metro-page work, and a monthly re-audit. Founding rate is 2,500 USD per month for a three-month commitment (standard 3,800), and we carry a written guarantee, at least +30 audit points to a minimum score of 75 plus citations for your money keywords, or we work free until we get there. We also publish a free 60-second audit anyone can run. What we are not: we are a young, small team without the funded-startup case studies or the earned press that the specialists below have. Our guarantee, our MSP focus, our finite term, and our price are the honest reasons to consider us; track record depth is the honest reason to scrutinize us.
Discovered Labs
The strongest of the productized GEO specialists. Discovered Labs runs done-for-you AEO retainers for B2B SaaS, priced in euros from roughly EUR6,995 to EUR15,995 per month, with a EUR4,370 diagnostic that credits toward the first month. Founder pedigree is real (ex-Stripe, ex-Instantly scale experience), their content and Reddit motion is prolific, and, unusually, they actually appear in independent best-agency roundups rather than only ones they wrote. Where they are not a fit for MSPs: they are built for funded SaaS, priced accordingly, carry no local or metro delivery, and explicitly refuse outcome guarantees on the principle that AI answers are probabilistic.
Growtika
A full-scale SEO plus AI-search agency for startups, strong on content depth. Growtika's programmatic per-engine and per-sector pages, its 500-prompt audit, and its Trust Hub Mapping (identifying the 10 to 15 sources AI cites in a category) are genuinely good craft. Clutch rating is 5.0 across a solid review count. Pricing is gated with a stated 5,000 USD-plus minimum and a budget dropdown that starts at "under 10,000 per month". For an MSP the caveats are that it is not US-based, has no managed-IT vertical focus, offers no guarantee, and its "free audit" is a sales-qualifying call rather than an instant tool.
AnswerManiac
The most aggressive productized AEO play, and the only competitor in this set actively running paid search ads. AnswerManiac sells a 2,997 USD one-time 90-day sprint (audit, schema, and entity setup) that ascends into retainers at 6,500 to 14,997 USD per month. The low-ticket sprint is a genuinely useful entry point if you want a diagnostic without a long commitment. The honest caveats: their guarantee story is contradictory (launch PR promised a full refund, the live pricing page says deliverables only), even the sprint is gated behind a discovery call, and the focus is B2B SaaS, not MSPs.
Tactics Marketing
The closest thing to a direct peer: an MSP-only marketing agency that has bolted AEO and GEO onto a generalist retainer. Founder-led by an operator who previously ran a top-100 MSP, so the domain knowledge is real, and their free AEO Rank Tracker is a nice instant tool that scores authority across a few engines. Published pricing (from one blog post) runs from about 3,500 USD per month entry to 5,000 to 15,000 for full service. For a buyer who wants a productized, guaranteed AI-visibility outcome specifically, the gaps are that GEO is one service inside a broad retainer, there is no outcome guarantee, and pricing is inconsistently published.
Marketopia
A long-established MSP marketing incumbent. Marketopia is genuinely good at what it does, websites, demand generation, appointment setting, and channel marketing for IT providers, typically on open-ended retainers from around 5,000 USD per month. If you want a full outsourced marketing department, they are a serious option. What they do not sell is a product that gets you specifically cited in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers; "AI-powered" on their own tooling is not the same as an AI-visibility service with a measured outcome.
Tech Pro Marketing
Another MSP marketing incumbent, often quoted around 3,000 USD per month flat, and the shop that absorbed the old Ulistic brand. Solid, affordable Google-era marketing for managed service providers: sites, content, SEO, lead generation. As with Marketopia, the honest limitation for this specific need is that there is no productized GEO or AI-visibility offer with a guarantee or a defined citation outcome.
How to choose
If you are a funded B2B SaaS company, Discovered Labs, Growtika, or AnswerManiac are built for you. If you want a full outsourced marketing department for your MSP and AI visibility is a nice-to-have, Marketopia or Tech Pro fit. If your specific problem is that AI does not recommend your managed IT firm and you want that fixed, on a fixed timeline, with a written guarantee and MSP-specific local work, that is the narrow slot we built Ministeru' Creativ for, and the reason we could write this list honestly is that we are comfortable telling you when someone else is the better call.